Parks and Recreation (NBC, 8:30 p.m.) — Parks is also bringing back a fan-favorite moment from the show’s past: Galentine’s Day, because Leslie’s on the lookout for a new BFF. Might I suggest Sewage Joe?

@dissident Tee-hee. I can stomach both just fine, but that doesn’t mean I always enjoy them. Pierce was often a dick, but the level of meanness he exhibited in that particular episode rang false. Contrived for the sake of giving that episode a villain. I didn’t like it. And I don’t like the gleeful attitude that American Horror Story seems to have when it comes to inflicting pain on its characters.

I used to be a flower, but I withered to dust when Ross and Rachel broke up.

@dissident Maybe so. I personally can only think of two episodes where he was really a raging asshole — D&D, and the one with the play about Drugs, where he gave Annie that check and blackmailed her with it. The latter felt true to the character because he wasn’t being outright cruel to anyone; he was just sort of shitting on them for the sake of being “a star.” In D&D he was calling Neil a fattie, desecrating his sword, raping his imaginary family, etc., which all seemed much more malicious than it had to be for Pierce to get what he wanted. I guess it’s just a matter of nuance — the fact that the brunt of his nastiness was borne by the innocent new guy, rather than the group that he felt had wronged him. Eh, maybe it wasn’t a matter of out-of-character-ness; all I know is it bothered me way more than anything else Pierce ever did.